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Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42 — Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
AT&T to stop offering two-year phone contracts on January 8, moving to up-front purchase of new phones or AT&T Next financing plans — AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract seems to be coming to a close, Engadget has learned.
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Apple agrees to pay €318M in taxes to close the investigation into €1B of undeclared profits by its Italian subsidiary, tax office confirms — Apple to pay €318m in tax owed to Italy — US tech giant Apple has agreed to pay €318 million in tax owed to Italy's inland revenue … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Redesigned Twitter for Mac app now available with dark mode, GIF support, Group Direct Messages, Quote Tweet functionality, and more, but lacks polls support — Redesigned Twitter for Mac app with dark mode, GIF support, & more is now available — Earlier this year, Twitter promised …
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
LG Display, Samsung Display to supply OLED screens for iPhones - report — South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd and the panel-making unit of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will supply organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens for Apple Inc's iPhones, the Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
LG's SmartThinQ smart home hub connects to your appliances and gadgets, needs smartphone to control them and play music, looks like Amazon Echo with LCD display — LG's smart home hub looks like an Amazon Echo with a screen — Amazon's Echo was one of the stars of the retail giant's … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users, has been patched — Google slams AVG for exposing Chrome user data with “security” plugin — AVG AntiVirus “force-installed” Chrome plugin that left browsing data vulnerable.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Samsung's new Tizen-based TVs will have GAIA security with pin lock for credit card and other personal info, data encryption, built-in anti-malware system, more — Samsung says its new Tizen TVs will be harder to hack — Samsung has announced that its next generation of Tizen smart TVs will be a lot harder to crack than before.
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| Brian Rohan / Associated Press: |
Egypt shuts down Facebook's Free Basics internet service on telco provider Etisalat, reasons unclear — Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down — BEIRUT (AP) — Social media site Facebook says a program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians has been shut down.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Credit Karma acquires mobile notifications firm Snowball for engineering talent, will remove Snowball's Android app from Play Store, shutter service — Credit Karma Acquires Innovative Mobile Notifications Startup Snowball — Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma … | Wall Street Journal: |
Fidelity revises its value of stakes in IPO hopefuls Twilio, up by 31%, and Nutanix, down by 10% — Fidelity Revises Value of Stakes in IPO Hopefuls Twilio, Nutanix — Fidelity Investments has revised the estimated value of its stakes in two fast-growing startups on the verge of initial public offerings in 2016.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline — Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone … Sponsor Posts
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